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by Paul Singer
The Associated
Press
CLEVELAND - No
explosives were found aboard a Delta flight from Boston that was forced
to land at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport because of fears it
had been hijacked, city officials said.
The Federal
Aviation Administration had been informed at 9:45 a.m. of a possible
hijacking of a plane headed for Cleveland, said FBI spokesman Mark
Bullock.
Flight 1989 to
Los Angeles was not hijacked but was grounded by Delta because it was in
the same flight pattern as a plane that was hijacked and struck the
World Trade Center in New York, Bullock said.
The plane landed
about 10:45 a.m. today with 78 passengers aboard, airport officials
said.
The Boeing 767 was
evacuated and searched, said Della Homenik, spokeswoman for Mayor
Michael R. White. Passengers were taken to a nearby NASA facility.
FBI spokesman
Bob Hawk said that since the Delta plane left Boston about the same time
as the hijacked plane, passengers were being interviewed to see if they
saw anything unusual this morning.
After the plane
landed, the airport was closed and bomb-sniffing dogs were brought to
baggage pickup areas.
Meanwhile, White
said a second airplane in distress had passed through Cleveland airspace
Tuesday morning before being handed off to Toledo.
Officials at
Toledo Express Airport did not immediately have any information about
the plane.
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